Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a
considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then,
developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal …

A principle of perceptual organization, called uniform connectedness (UC), is described, and
a theoretical approach to perceptual organization is proposed in which this principle plays a …

What do we see when we glance at a natural scene and how does it change as the glance
becomes longer? We asked naive subjects to report in a free-form format what they saw …

What is the sequence of processing steps involved in visual object recognition? We varied
the exposure duration of natural images and measured subjects' performance on three …

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into
a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to …

Many objects have component parts, and these parts often differ in their visual salience. In
this paper we present a theory of part salience. The theory builds on the minima rule for …

In this paper we present a novel class-based segmentation method, which is guided by a
stored representation of the shape of objects within a general class (such as horse images) …